
Burma Road
The print
Printed to order at 300 DPI, rendered natively at your size and never upscaled. Print only; the frame in the photos is for scale.
Shipping & returns
Printed in 2 to 5 business days, then 3 to 5 in transit within the US, rolled in a sturdy tube. Free US shipping; outside the US, shipping is calculated at checkout. 14-day reprint-or-refund guarantee, any reason, no return shipping. You have 1 hour after checkout to change trail, style or size, just reply to your confirmation email. Full returns policy.
About the Burma Road trail
Spanning 6.9 miles in Israel, Burma Road climbs 900 feet in total, from a low of 463 feet to a high of 1,109 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 13 percent, against an average of 130 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the moderately strenuous band. The nearest town is Qiryat Ye‘arim, 5 miles away.
The trail
Burma Road (Hebrew: דרך בורמה Derekh Burma) in Israel was a makeshift bypass road between Kibbutz Hulda and Jerusalem, built under the supervision of General Mickey Marcus during the 1948 Siege of Jerusalem. It was named for the Chinese Burma Road.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Along the route
- Harel Lookoutmi 2.2
- Israel Trail Librarymi 3.9
- The Serpentine Turnsmi 4.0
- Ein Hilami 5.2
- Ein Mesillami 6.7
Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.
Questions about the Burma Road print
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How hard is Burma Road?
Trail geometry and place names for this print: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles. The derived trail dataset is published at /open-data. Best months are an estimate from NASA POWER climate data (CC BY 4.0), 2001 to 2020 monthly averages adjusted to the trail's elevation, not an official season; check current conditions and closures.